The creators of the cult time-travel police drama Life On Mars are in talks to revive the series, with streaming platforms showing interest after the original broadcaster declined due to concerns over modern sensitivities. Richard Littlejohn uses the news to satirically contrast the tough, politically incorrect policing of the past, embodied by Gene Hunt, with what he sees as the overly cautious and politically correct approach of today's police. Through a fictional scenario, he imagines Hunt waking up in a contemporary police station, bewildered by new attitudes towards gender, diversity, and crime priorities. The piece humorously critiques changes in policing and social attitudes, longing for a return to the more direct, if flawed, methods of the past.